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What a Widow (United Artists). This is a violent attempt to rouse laughter by an expenditure of physical energy. The attempt is a failure. One is surprised at first to see a film star so securely established as Gloria Swanson engaging in furious slapstick, but after the novelty has worn off the humor also disappears...
...refused to conform to the commercial limitation of picture making. His films had to be cut to pieces to reduce them to program time. Producers became wary. His Wedding March, acclaimed by critics, was too expensive to yield profits. After he had spent many hundred thousand dollars directing Gloria Swanson in Queen Kelly he was ousted, the picture never released. A brilliant director, an arrogant, independent personality, he has become an actor again by necessity...
...first there was confusion. Some merchants still gave charge accounts, but they soon found that they were boycotted by "good accounts," patronized by "bad accounts." Now all the merchants, more than 30 of them, belong. A. C. Filter, drygoods; E. L. Kiessling, ready-to-wear; Caroline Gray, cafe; Swanson Bros. Meat Market; and the Silhette Grocery are all prominent members...
...Lawrence Richey, Hoover secretary, bustled in, put a blotter and inkstand on the table, masked some talkie microphones behind piled volumes of The Historians History of the World. President Hoover, followed by Vice President Curtis. Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Adams, Senators Watson. Reed, Borah, Robinson, Swanson, marched in, sat down, signed the London Naval Treaty...
...Emmet Swanson, Minneapolis, Minn...